Abstract
This article aims to provide an overview of the latest theoretical issues of contemporary political sociology regarding the notion of citizenship. To this end, it relies on the associations between sociological theory and history to analyze the inflection of classical approaches to national citizenship, impregnated by the historical and conceptual horizon of national states towards a concept that is increasingly unrelated to national exclusivity due to the intensification of global processes. The historical context of globalization poses urgent challenges as to the way of thinking the very idea of solidarity. The re-articulation of basic elements of citizenship (such as rights, titles, and territoriality), the diversification of the political spaces of claim, the emergence of new actors, and the changes in the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion are some of the new conditions that redirect the approaches to the concept.
Keywords:
Citizenship; Political Sociology; Nation States; Globalization